Postracial fantasies, blackness, and zombies

被引：37
作者：
Watts, Eric King [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Dept Commun, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
来源：
COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL-CULTURAL STUDIES | 2017年 / 14卷 / 04期
关键词：
Postracial fantasies; biopolitics; blackness; zombie apocalypse; racism; RACE;
D O I：
10.1080/14791420.2017.1338742
中图分类号：
G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要：
The essay mainly performs a structural and formal analysis of the logics and affective economies of postracial fantasies so as to eventually offer the Zombie trope as a mode of analysis figuring alternative ways of thinking race relations. The essay contends that the Zombie, when articulated with discourses and feelings of the postracial, signifies the unleashing of black bio-threat bodies upon a population; and that enjoyment of the postracial and the Zombie Apocalyptic genre obscures and resuscitates this signification. As a brief case study, the essay discusses the display, materiality, and bloody enjoyment of the Zombie Obama target mannequin by gun enthusiasts and preppers.
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页码：317 / 333
页数：17
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